Trousers having an internal belt.



D. SHERENSON. TROUSERS HA-VING AN INTERNAL BELT. APPLICATION FILED APR. 29. I915.

1 1 83,2%'?, Patented May 16, 1916.

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DAVID SHERENSON, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

TROUSERS HAVING AN INTERNAL BELT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 16, 1916.

Application filed April 29, 1915. Serial No. 24,624.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID SHEnENsoN, a subject of the Czar of Russia, and a resident of the borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trousers Having an Internal Belt, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide trousers with an inside or built-in belt, avoiding the necessity for a separate belt or trouser buckles, and securing certain special advantages, as will become apparent hereinafter. The forward ends of the belt are connected with the top placket fasteners, so that the one operation fastens the placket and the belt. The belt and the waistband of the trousers are so constructed and combined as to enable the wearer to lengthen or shorten the waistband without having to take the garment to a tailor. Additional adjustments permit of lengthening or shortening the belt as distinguished from the waistband.

In the accompanying drawingszFigure l is a perspective view of the top of a pair of trousers provided with the belt; Fig. 2 is an inside view of the belt removed and spread out, portions being broken out ,because of the limitation as to space; Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional plan view of the front portion of the waistband and belt; Fig. 4: is an enlarged inside elevation showing parts at one side of the placket; Fig. 5 is a similar view showing parts at the other side of the placket; Fig. 6 is a sectional plan view of the back portion of the waistband and belt; and Fig. 7 is an inside elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 6.

The trousers 1 have a usual placket 2. Extending around inside the waistband 3 is a casing, which may be formed by a lining strip a sewed along its top and bottom edges to the goods of the trousers. The waistband and easing are interrupted at the back by a V shaped incision provided with a gore 5. At the top of the placket are customary fasteners, comprising a hook member 6 sewed to the goods at one side of the placket and a keeper member 7 sewed on the opposite side. The plate of the hook member 6 may be sewed between two thicknesses of the cloth, as is customary. The plate of the keeper member 7 may be sewed to the inner side of the cloth, beneath the strip 4;, with part 12, which its keeper projecting through the goods in the usual manner.

The belt 8 is secured within the waistband casing, and as preferably constructed comprises two inelastic tapes 9 and 10, having their rear, proximate ends looped through a double adjustment slide 11. The forward end of the tape 9 is provided with an adj ustment slide 12, having an extension provided with a tongue 13, by means of which'it is separably connected with an eye or keeper 14 on the placket fastener member 6. The said eye 14: is passed through the inner layer of cloth 15, in order that it may engage the projects from the open end of the casing. The forward end portion of the tape 10 also has adjustable connection with the placket fastener member '7. This may be secured in various ways. In the construction shown, the tape is provided with a series of eyelets 16, so spaced that adjacent eyelets may receive projections 17 and 18 on the plate of member 7, the member 17 being swiveled and extended laterally so as to form a locking bar to engage frictionally beneath the laterally bent end of the projection 18. The end of the strip 4 which covers this connection may be left partly unsewed and fastened by a hook and eye 20, for ready access.

The belt may be fastened to the waistband by sewing through eyelets 21 provided in the tapes 9 and 10 toward their rear ends. The central piece 22 of the double slide buckle 11 is sewed at 23 to the cloth at one side of the gore. The opposite side of the gore may befastened at various adjustments by a hook 24 adapted to engage with any one of a series of eyes 25. This is for the purpose of keeping the free side of the gore from projecting outward loosely.

In use the waistband may be lengthened or shortened by pulling the tapes 9 and 10 or one of them in or out of the slots of the buckle 11. The means of adjustment at the forward ends of the tapes are for the purpose of making the belt tighter or looser. The separable connections between the belt and the placket fasteners facilitate the op eration of efiecting adjustments.

What I claim as new is:

1. A garment with a front placket and fasteners, having a casing around the inside of its waistband, and a V-shaped incision in the rear of said waistband, in combination with a belt positioned within said casing, said belt comprising two sections, means ad ustably connecting the forward ends of both belt sections with the placket fasteners, means located at said V-shaped incision and adjustably connecting the rear ends of said belt sections, and means connecting each of said belt sections with the garment adjacent said V-shaped incision, whereby adjustments in the lengths of both the waistband and the forward belt sections are possible.

2. A garment having a belt casing inside its waistband and provided with a placket and placket fasteners at one point and with a gore at another point in its waistband, in combination with a belt positioned within said casing, said belt comprising two sections, one pair of ends of which are secured to the placket fasteners, means located adjacent the said gore and adjustably connecting the other pair of ends of the belt sections, and means connecting the belt sections with the garment adjacent the gore, whereby the length of the waistband may be adjusted.

8. A garment having a belt casing inside its waistband and provided with a placket and placket fasteners at one point and with a gore at another point in its waistband, in combination with a belt positioned within said casing, said belt comprising two sections one pair of ends of which are secured to the placket fasteners, means located adjacent the said gore and adjustably connecting the other pair of ends of the belt sections, means connecting the Copies this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the belt sections with the garment adjacent the gore, and additional means for fastening the gore at different degrees of extension.

l. The combination with a garment having a front placket and a casing around the inside of its waistband, of placket fasteners comprising hook and keeper members secured to opposite sides of the top of the placket, one of said members having a portion extending through the material of the garment and located at the inner side of the garment, a belt disposed within said casing and connected at one end with the other placket fastener member, and a buckle adjustable on the other end of said belt, said buckle and the inwardly extending portion of the firstnnentioned placket fastener member having means whereby they may be connected and disconnected.

5. The combination with a pair of trousers having a placket and placket-fastening devices at opposite sides of the top of the placket, of a belt secured inside the waistband and connected at its ends with said placket-fastening devices, one end of the belt being provided with a series of eyelets and one of said devices having projections adapted to pass through the eyelets, one of said projections having a swinging locking bar to engage with the other.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DAVID SHERENSON. Witnesses J. F. BRANDENBURG, E. GREENBERGER.

Commissioner of Patent:

Washington, D. C. 

